On Halloween night, after a horrific commute, I decided to hunker down and stay at home rather than go out. I just so happened to have a copy of Annabelle: Creation to watch. Perfect! A little bit of horror on a dark and stormy night. I joked to others that I was curious to find …
It’s not campy or colorful, but gorgeously dark and gothic and shadowy, like a black-and-white technicolor movie. Ron Perlman, who last donned mucho prosthetic make-up as Vincent in the cult-hit TV series Beauty and the Beast, dons mucho prosthetic make-up to play the titular demon, who’s rescued – as a teensy, weensy devil baby – …
Back in 2004, director Guillermo del Toro helmed the first Hellboy movie to a moderate level of acclaim and fanboy delight. But back then, he was just the sorta-known guy who made that movie where Mira Sorvino runs from giant bugs in sewers. Cut to 2008, and del Toro is once again behind the camera …
In a sense, paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren helped spawn the modern horror movie. After all, it was they who documented the murders at the house in Amityville, a real-life horror tale that spawned first a best-selling book, then a hit horror movie (that sure made an impression on me as a kid). Even …
Molly Hartley (Sarah Lind) was once a haunted girl in high school (see The Haunting of Molly Hartley… which I, myself, did not see). It’s now six years later, she is 24, super-smart, and just made partner at a law firm in record time. I guess that is what happens when Satan’s got your back! …
Sadly, Seventh Son isn’t even one of those spectacularly campy, so-bad-it’s-good misfires, redeemed by unintentional humor or deliciously over-the-top performances. This one misses the mark by such a gargantuan margin that I have to assume there was never actually a mark to hit in the first place. Set in I-don’t-know-when, in the fantasy realm of …
A minor breakaway star from the hit horror film The Conjuring, Annabelle was a creepy CREEPY possessed doll the proved to be such trouble that she is now (in reality) locked up in a carefully monitored case. We, as audiences, love to have the poo scared out of us, so it is unsurprising and rather …
I’m a sucker for religious horror films, from possession to demon dolls to angels falling to earth. When I saw the ads for Horns, showing That Nice Daniel Radcliffe bedeviled by the horns he has sprouted overnight, I was all over it. Unfortunately, the idea of Horns is better than the final product. We meet …
Hey kids! Look what’s out just in time for Halloween—it’s the new Amityville Horror! What the world really needs is an Amityville movie at least every five years, and I just don’t know what we’ll do if Hollywood ever fails to deliver. Don’t look at them as cheap, recycled versions of a story we all …
LINDA: Well, let’s just say I’ll never think of the happy sound of “the pitter-patter of tiny feet” the same way again. One of the most-touted scenes that was added to this re-release of The Exorcist is of newly-possessed Regan (Linda Blair) scampering on all fours—on her back—down the stairs. You see the horrifying image …